By: Caora Mckenna in Halifax
Inside the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market on Halifax’s waterfront you’ll find a stack of the Dakai Times newspapers. Printed in Chinese and English, the quarterly newspaper…

By: Fred Mercnik in Niagara-on-the-Lake
In 1918, 26 Polish soldiers were buried in the Polish Military Cemetery behind St.Vincent de Paul Church.The small plot of graves is immediately distinguishable from the…

In partnership with Apathy is Boring, New Canadian Media will be posting first-person accounts from the 150 Years Young Project, a campaign that highlights the positive impact youth are making throughout their…

by Tanya Mok (@loqtm) in Toronto, Ontario
The Canadian immigrant experience is often dependent upon a number of different factors. Although our country extends a welcoming hand to a multitude of international…

In partnership with Apathy is Boring, New Canadian Media will be posting first-person accounts from the 150 Years Young Project, a campaign that highlights the positive impact youth are making throughout their…

In partnership with Apathy is Boring, New Canadian Media will be posting first-person accounts from the 150 Years Young Project, a campaign that highlights the positive impact youth are making throughout their…

In partnership with Apathy is Boring, New Canadian Media will be posting first-person accounts from the 150 Years Young Project, a campaign that highlights the positive impact youth are making throughout their…

by Tanya Mok
Autumn is arguably the most beautiful season in Toronto, but even clear skies and above-average temperatures weren’t enough to keep Samantha Beniprashad-Maharaj and her husband Ryan Maharaj from…

by Renée Sylvestre-Williams
When Toronto-based lawyer Anjli Patel and her husband, Parambir Keila, were planning their Sikh wedding ceremony, they wanted to keep it simple and have it downtown. But they…

by Our National Correspondent in Ottawa
Lucile Davier, currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa, has spent many years looking at journalism that relies on translating from a foreign…

by Amanda Ghazale Aziz in Toronto
When Carleton University asked reporter Judy Trinh to give a talk on diversity in the journalism industry to students in the journalism and communications program, she…

by Andrew Lam in San Francisco
People take pride in the food they eat, and ethnic communities especially form and retain their identities around their traditional cuisines. What’s Italian without pasta?…

SURREY – British Columbians are invited to nominate places of historic significance to South Asian Canadians for recognition.
Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services Amrik Virk made the announcement Friday…

Most language learners today are no strangers to phrasebooks, immersion programs, or Rosetta Stone, but how about using First Nations language learning apps, or watching ultrasound imagery to speak Cantonese…

OVER 100,000 festivalgoers joined in BC’s largest multicultural celebration, Surrey Fusion Festival, this past weekend. The event featured live entertainment on five stages, 40 cultural pavilions, an indigenous village and a…

TORONTO: Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN), Canada’s largest South Asian broadcaster, announced on Monday that it has acquired exclusive cricket rights for Cricket Australia, England Cricket Board, Cricket Ireland…

OTTAWA—The federal Liberal government has enlisted the independent Public Policy Forum to assess the state of Canada’s struggling news industry as it looks into potential policy options.
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TORONTO: DiversityFest 2016 enthralled the Greater Toronto Area with an array of outstanding multicultural performances on June 5 at Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto. This free public event featured the finest multicultural performing…

BRAMPTON: With the growing popularity of kabaddi throughout India, it is now being played in Brampton’s schools and enjoyed by students. Peel District School Board Trustee Harkirat Singh and Brampton City Councillor…

With immigration continuing to drive Canada’s population growth and alter its ethnic makeup, a new study says these factors are being reflected in how Canadians eat.
The Mintel study, Ethnic Foods and…

MISSISSAUGA, Canada—Artist Suzi Dwor has spent her career doing what she loves—creating art and developing emerging artists.
But she found an unexpected source of inspiration during Shen Yun Performing Arts’ performance…

A large contingent of locals from Surrey jointed Liberal MPs Randeep Sarai and Sukh Dhaliwal in Ottawa during special Vaisakhi celebrations featuring Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They included Gurminder S…

TORONTO (March 31, 2016)–
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and the undersigned organizations have issued a joint letter to Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale expressing alarm over the Ontario Superior…

New Delhi (IANS): A consortium that unsuccessfully bid for an Indian Premier League franchise — which included actors Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor, industrialist Venugupal Dhoot’s firms and…

by Elvira Truglia in Montreal
On one of the final stops during its two-year, cross-country “Our Canada” workshop series, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) held an open conversation about faith…

by Daniel Leon Rodriguez in Calgary
Many immigrant men feel isolated, fearful and lost upon arrival in Canada, according to multiple researchers and social agencies in the country.
Vic Lantion, a program…

by Tazeen Inam in Mississauga
Pakistani women enjoy more autonomy in the home and greater overall life satisfaction in Canada compared to what they experienced back home, a new study suggests.
According…

by Daniel Leon Rodriguez in Calgary
Calgary is celebrating the best of its immigrant communities at the 20th annual Immigrants of Distinction Awards this month.
Immigrant Services Calgary (ISC) will host the…

by Rosanna Haroutounian in Quebec City
A group of citizens is accusing Videotron, one of Quebec’s largest telecommunication companies, of failing to provide mandatory community television service in the province.
“Videotron is…

by Melissa Shaw in Richmond, British Columbia
Richmond community members came together last week to discuss breaking down the barriers of racism as part of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation’s (CRRF)…

by Hadani Ditmars in Vancouver, British Columbia
As the Palm Springs International Film Festival wraps up and Thursday’s Oscar nominations loom, I remember the words of my old friend Paolo Consigilio.
The expert Italian…

by Hadani Ditmars in Vancouver, British Columbia
As a Vancouverite, I have always been particularly obsessed with winter solstice. I blame this on Seasonal Affective Disorder and the fact that, in addition to our incredibly…

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